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Some unaccountably stayed put. Sample: Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson Henjes. Last March, when she was still Maud Stevenson and yachtsman Robert H. Henjes was only her "boyfriend" (her own term), she & he tiffed. The tiff wound up in a Long Island police station where Maud, stripped down to brassiere and half slip, bit and kicked a cop like nobody's business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In & Out | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Sullivan will be the Purple's biggest offensive gun, if he is sufficiently recovered from the Working over he absorbed in the Villanova tiff last week. He is a rocking power runner who will also take plenty of chasing if he gets into the secondary, and his ability as a passer and a kicker make him even more dangerous...

Author: By Holy CROSS Tomahawk, | Title: Purple Battles to Wipe Out Memory of 1946 Trimming | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

League games with Dartmouth, Tufts, Williams, M.I.T., and New Hampshire and an extra-curricular tiff with the Boston Lacrosse Club will bring the team up to May 24 and the Yale embroglio well primed for Bulldog meat. At this early date predictions on the outcome of the N.E.I.L.L. race for the Briggs Trophy are pointless, but come what may April 1 will find Chief Maddux and his ten best practitioners of the old Indian game on the warpath and howling...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

Frank & Nancy Sinatra dropped off Hollywood's Ideal Couple List with a thud. After a hot argument, Frankie walked out with a first-degree burn on. Clucked Sinatra's pressagent: "It was a case of Hollywood career plus a family tiff. I hope they will make up. . . ." But that night, Frankie went to Sonja Henie's party, danced with Lana Turner. Burbled Lolly Parsons: "[Lana has] known Frank for a long time, but. . . says: 'I am not in love with Frank and he is not in love with me. I have never in my life broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, whose cut-off allowance from daughter Gloria Stokowski last March put their family tiff in headlines, found just the place for her new soaps & lotions business: a Manhattan structure known as Peace House. Partner Maurice Chalom leased part of the building from longtime peace-plumper Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, who emphasized to the press: "The 'peace' end of the building continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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